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Contents
About Oxfam
Our Year
Economic Justice
Essential Services
Rights in Crisis
Gender Justice
Expenditure
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Organizational Profile
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Contact Us
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Annex 1
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Annex 2
Front cover image: Leyla Kayere, selling tomatoes in Mnembo, Malawi. Over-farming and climate change have had a big impact on farming in Malawi and led to food shortages. An Oxfam funded irrigation scheme, established in 2004, has taken advantage of the countrys rivers to provide newly irrigated land which has helped to improve the lives of 400 families. Their traditional small crops have been transformed into year-round, high volume harvests that provide continuous food and a source of income.
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Rajendra Shaw/Oxfam
Children by an Oxfam water tank in India, part of Oxfams Water, Health and Sanitation (WASH) focus.
1. About Oxfam
Oxfam is an international Confederation of 15 organizations working together in 92 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. We work directly with communities, and we seek to influence those in power to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.
Oxfam Mexico
These are the specific goals we trying to achieve until 2012 as identified in our strategic plan.
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2 Essential services
Demand that national governments fulfill Support civil society organizations and Ensure better policies and more
their responsibilities to deliver good quality health, education, water and sanitation, especially for women and excluded groups. alliances to hold governments accountable for the delivery of these services.
3 Rights in crisis
Deliver better protection and greater
assistance in emergency situations, through improving our skills and capacities, and becoming more accountable to the people we are helping. We will also increase our work with and through local organizations, and particularly strengthen the role of women. international humanitarian system to deliver better protection and greater assistance. This will mean raising the standards of disaster response by international agencies and implementing commitments by governments on the Responsibility to Protect and pursuing an Arms Trade Treaty.
4 Gender justice
Support womens leadership at all levels to
achieve greater power in decision-making and greater control over their lives. changing ideas, attitudes and beliefs of men and women that permit violence against women. capacities on gender, to ensure that gender justice is achieved in all of our work.
Achieve fairer trade rules for poor countries. Reduce the impact of climate change
by supporting vulnerable people and communities, particularly in agriculture, to adapt to climate change. We will campaign on the injustices of climate change which nearly always hits poorest communities hardest.
funding from rich countries and international institutions. Ensure that they honor already existing commitments on aid and debt reduction.
security, with a greater focus on preventing conflict, peace-building, reconciliation and longer-term development.
Related campaigns and advocacy at the global, regional, national and local levels involving research, lobbying, media, popular mobilization and alliance building
We work with and through partners and communities to eradicate poverty and combat injustice through long-term, sustainable development programs.
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and international organizations (including Oxfam) to account for their responsibilities. In adopting the rights-based approach, Oxfam uses a range of interventions:
Emergency assistance for natural disasters and conflict situations, and support in response to slow-onset emergencies
Felipe Hernandez Agulier, 24, spreading fair trade coffee beans out to dry in the sun at Caracol, Honduras. Oxfams partner, Coordinator of Farming Women in La Paz (COMUCAP), bought the land for these drying patios with the revenue made from selling organic fertiliser.
2. Our year
(GRI 1.1)
Yet again, over the past year there have been complex humanitarian emergencies occurring on an unimaginable scale. Oxfams emergency response to the January earthquake in Haiti was still underway when huge flooding hit Pakistan in August 2010 affecting an overwhelming 20 million people. Oxfam has responded to this and numerous other disasters over the last year. Emergency work highlights the fact that the poorest people are the most vulnerable and the impacts of the global economic crisis and climate change hit those in poverty hardest. Despite this, people living in poverty or in vulnerable situations consistently show huge determination in wanting to change their own futures and to create solutions themselves. Oxfam enables people and communities to do this. The revolutionary wave of protests across the Middle East and North Africa, known as the Arab Spring, shows how social media has given a new voice to people who can now communicate, demand change, organize and raise awareness in ways never seen before. A number of Oxfam partners in Egypt are playing important roles in supporting these changes. The Arab Spring revolutions underline that the world is changing fast and Oxfam needs to change with it. Oxfam continues to receive strong support in 2010-2011, but the global financial situation has had an impact on fundraising in some countries. This means we have to work harder than ever to make sure that people living in poverty do not suffer as a consequence of a financial crisis created by the rich countries. We are deeply appreciative that so many supporters understand this and continue to give generously. In 2011, the Confederation welcomed Oxfam India as a full affiliate. In addition, a local Brazilian organization Vitae Civilis was invited to the planning phase of becoming an observer of the Confederation, which is the route to full membership. We continue to increase the impact and efficiency of country programs through the implementation of the Single Management Structure (SMS) process. SMS means reducing the number of affiliates working in countries, developing a single strategy for each country, with shared services, one brand and one voice. By the end of April 2011, the first three countries had implemented SMS. By December 2011, it is intended that 16 countries will have gone live. It will take time to implement the strategy worldwide, and implementation is likely to continue until the end of 2013. This is a challenging and complex change, which is exciting for us as new possibilities emerge. (NGO6, GRI 2.9)
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Tom Pietrasik/Oxfam
Studying in Jalhe Bogiya village school, Bihar, India, where pupils now receive a hot lunch six days a week as part of the midday meals program. In 2010, Oxfam marked its 60th year in India. It was fitting that this was the year when we welcomed Oxfam India as a fully independent Indian affiliate into the Confederation.
2. Our year
In our efforts to improve our own transparency and accountability to donors, supporters, partners, allies and the communities we work with, our Annual Report this year, for the first time ever, incorporates our INGO Accountability Charter Report. Jeremy Hobbs
In the current financial climate there are increasing questions on the effectiveness of development and aid. As a member of the International Non Governmental Organization (INGO) Accountability Charter, we are actively involved in developing accountability standards within the sector. In our efforts to improve our own transparency and accountability to donors, supporters, partners, allies and the communities we work with, our Annual Report this year, for the first time, incorporates our INGO Accountability Charter Report. We are also addressing sustainability as part of a wider push on standards and accountability. As an international organization, we face significant challenges in managing the cost of travel and communications, and challenges in managing diversity and human resource practices across multiple cultures. Our aim is to become a truly global organization, reflecting a much broader spectrum of people, cultures and interests. The vehicle for this change is SMS, which is bringing together our country programs to a more coherent whole. We are actively promoting video conferencing and electronic communications to reduce our carbon footprint, and we have produced our second internal report on the Confederations carbon footprint. On the social dimension we are also thinking more about how we can operate more as a network rather than as a classical management pyramid. Looking forward, by 2050 the ten largest economies of the world will include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Mexico and Indonesia. These countries will also be increasingly important on issues such as climate change, food security and global inequality. To be relevant in the 21st Century, Oxfam needs a presence and links with allies and civil society in these emerging economies. To achieve that, we are increasing our campaigning in these countries. (NGO5) We would like to thank our partners and allies, sponsors and donors, and staff and volunteers, whose support and work enables us to make a real difference in reducing poverty worldwide.
INGO ACCOUNTABILITY CHARTER Oxfam supports the increasing calls for greater accountability from Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to donors, governments, partners and communities. Oxfam is a founding member of the International NGO (INGO) Accountability Charter, a self-regulatory response by twenty four of the largest global INGOs covering environment, gender, human rights, consumers and development. The Charter represents an ongoing process to set up common standards of conduct for INGOs and to create mechanisms to report, monitor and evaluate compliance with those standards. Oxfam has reported on its compliance with the Charter since 2008. The reporting framework has provided Oxfam with a useful tool for identifying areas where policies and processes can be improved to make sure we are reaching as many people as possible with the resources we have. For information on the INGO Accountability Charter please visit the website. www.ingoaccountabilitycharter.org/ Annex 2 on page 62 details where you can find the INGO Accountability Charter requirements throughout this report.
Keith Johnston
Chair Oxfam International
Jeremy Hobbs
Executive Director Oxfam International
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Participants in an Oxfam research scheme. This scheme was established with partner organizations and communities after the 2004 Tsunami to improve the policies and practices of Oxfam and other aid agencies in humanitarian response. Oxfam has taken on board messages from the findings that disaster-affected communities want a chance to guide their own relief and rehabilitation in our work in Haiti and Pakistan.
Adherence to our program standards is one indicator we use to measure our impact. These measures of success include: the pursuit of mutual accountability with partners; a sustainable improvement in living standards; and respect for the basic human rights of those we work with. We have recently begun measuring these indicators through selfassessment processes and in-depth case studies. (SO1, NGO3)
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Encouraging feedback
We actively encourage feedback on our work and have created a feedback and complaints system which can be accessed via our website at www.oxfam.org/en/about/ accountability/board. Affiliates also have individual feedback mechanisms which can be accessed through affiliate websites. Any complaints which are received via the Oxfam International Secretariat are investigated by the Executive Director of the Secretariat, or the Executive Director of an affiliate (where the complaint concerns an affiliate). We aim to resolve complaints within two weeks, and will inform the complainant if we foresee a delay. Unresolved complaints are escalated to Oxfams Board. We are in the process of reviewing the current online feedback and complaints system in order to make the process more accessible to our stakeholders. Two Oxfam affiliates are also working with Keystone Accountability to strengthen their stakeholder feedback mechanisms. (NGO2)
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Vietnamese farmer Hoang Thi Lien at her farm in My Duc district, Ha Tay province. Vietnam. Oxfam works with local communities to provide support with farming techniques, tools and access to markets as part of our economic justice change goal.
4. Economic justice
Women and men living in poverty continue to be hit worst by climate change and the global economic and food crises. Working with partners, Oxfam works to create long-term changes in policy and practice at national, regional and global levels. We aim to improve the lives of farmers and laborers living in poverty, to make trade rules fairer, and to reduce the impact of climate change by supporting vulnerable people and communities to adapt to climate change. Through our programs Oxfam provides support with farming techniques, tools and access to markets, helping families grow enough food to eat and to earn a decent income. As 2010-2011 progressed, we focused our Economic Justice campaign increasingly on finding new sources of income to help poor countries combat the impact of climate change, recognizing the difficult financial positions of many governments. (NGO5) In 2011 we will launch a new campaign called GROW, focussing on the global food system that currently fails the worlds poorest communities. We will press governments and companies to reform unjust policies, to preserve scarce resources and to share them fairly.
Irifat Babyan looks in dismay at her apricot trees covered in snow. Climate change is one of the factors affecting food production around the globe. Here in the Vyat Dzor Region of Armenia, unusual patterns in temperature and late frosts have led to wipe-outs of the crucial apricot and apple crops.
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Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam
4. Economic justice
Liquid gold: honey in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, Oxfam is supporting the co-operative Zembaba Bee Products Development to help local beekeepers improve their production of honey. Of Ethiopias 80 million people, 85 per cent live in rural areas and depend on rainfed subsistence agriculture. Poverty is widespread, particularly in households headed by women. There are, however, economic opportunities in the honey market. The co-operative, which is co-owned and managed by women beekeepers, aims to become a profitable and leading producer and supplier of both honey and agricultural equipment and expertise. By providing modern, high-yield hives, protective equipment and training to beekeepers, the co-operative helps increase production of a steady supply of honey for which there is growing demand both in Ethiopia and beyond. In fact, the co-operative has managed to sign an agreement with the multinational Ambrosia group to supply honey to the export market. The collective processing, marketing and distribution of the co-operatives Amar honey means that profits stay within the co-operative network of 3,500 beekeepers rather than being passed onto brokers and agents. The co-operative also provides credit to individual members, and trains carpenters to make modern hives.
In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, beekeeper Wubalem (center) and her neighbours load racks, taken from a modern hive, to separate the honey from the wax.
Jars of the Amar honey on display at a grocery store in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
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Wubalem Shiferaw is a member of the local co-operative group, which brings together women beekeepers so they can build a credit union and share insights. We have no land to farm so it was always very difficult for us to make money says Wubalem.
For years we have been eating just one small meal a day. But the beehives have changed that. Now we are able to afford clothing.The beehives are within my compound so I tend to them every day. I am getting used to the modern techniques we have been taught. It has really helped us to provide the market with good quality honey. Wubalem
4. Economic justice
Rice farming in Vietnam
In Vietnam, Oxfam supported the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry to train farmers to use a System of Rice Intensification (SRI), which provides a low-cost approach to growing rice. Oxfam chose to work with the Ministry because of its strong network of farmers in rural areas. These links were used to set up field schools to teach SRI and foster learning and collaboration. This partnership has proven to be a powerful way to scale-up an idea which enables farmers to produce hardier plants, save time and money and grow more rice, which is both a staple crop for families and a major national export.
(NGO1, GRI 4.15)
Farmer Hoang Lien at her SRI farm in Dong Ph commune, Ha Tay Province, Vietnam. Lien also teaches and supports other farmers cultivating SRI rice.
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Farmers are now producing at least ten per cent more rice, using less fertilizer and virtually no pesticides, and enjoying a 25 to 35 per cent reduction in production costs. By late 2010, there were 817,939 farmers using SRI techniques to cultivate more than 373,000 acres of rice. More than 50 per cent of these farmers have been trained through Oxfam. There is significant evidence that lives are changing at all levels. Increases in income have been used to buy food, pay for school fees and provide a financial cushion. Many farmers are using their extra income to reinvest into their farms. Oxfam and local partners have successfully expanded SRI to 184 new villages, and trained some 600 farmers through 18 farmer schools. We have also secured the governments commitment to expand SRI in 2011 by doubling its 2010 investment.
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4. Economic justice
Climate change
Along with food and economic crises, climate change already presents a huge risk to human development, threatening to derail decades of progress in the fight against poverty. Men and women living in poverty are hardest hit because they are often dependent upon climate-sensitive natural resources and ecosystems for their livelihoods. Of the worlds poorest people, 75 per cent live in rural areas, and rural livelihoods are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. By 2015, Oxfam predicts that the number of people affected by climate-related disasters could grow by more than 50 per cent to an average of over 375 million people.1
Adriano Paucara from the community of Huayhuawasi in Cusco, Peru, looks at the pluviometer a device that allows him to measure how much rain has fallen in the last day.
Adriano Paucara and Rosa Maria Sumire are married and have two children. They live in Huayhuawasi, 4200 meters above the sea level, in the province of Espinar in the region of Cusco, Peru. This is one of the areas that has been hardest hit by climate change which has led to a severe scarcity of water and extreme weather conditions. But they are working now on a solution together with the NGO Asociacion Proyeccin, an Oxfam partner that is helping them adapt to climate change through the Qemikuspa project. The Qemikuspa project is working with
22 communities in the southern Andes of Peru, located between 3,500 and 5,000 meters above sea level. The main ways of making a living here are through agriculture, and by rearing alpaca and other livestock in order to sell milk, meat and wool at local markets. Crops are also grown for peoples own consumption. The effects of climate change extreme cold spells and water shortages in particular increase the mortality of the alpacas on whom people depend for survival and, even worse, also affect human health.
The project develops successful technological solutions, including water-efficient sprinkler irrigation systems, pasture recovery, recuperating ancestral knowledge, warming up the homes, and early warning systems. The Paucara family is a successful example of how lives can be improved with a small investment and education. This project seeks to disseminate and scale up these successful technological alternatives tested by local organizations. By protecting and improving their economic assets, families will be more resilient to climate change.
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Percy Ramrez/Oxfam
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Climate change campaign
Oxfam is helping to influence the practice and policies of governments, companies and individuals to help stop the negative effects of climate change. In the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, December 2010, we cultivated powerful voices across the political spectrum to speak out about climate change. Oxfam worked with people around the world to put pressure on their national governments, which included half a million people joining the Sow the Seed campaign in October. This was officially the largest wave of action on climate change the world has ever seen. We worked more closely than ever before with other NGOs and civil society, to develop a strong alliance strategy. Oxfam (together with ActionAid) led the Call for a Fair Climate Fund, which was signed by more than 200 organizations from across the world. (NGO6) Governments heard the call to a fair and ambitious deal on climate change and agreed to establish a global Climate Fund. This fund will benefit the most vulnerable communities, providing money to help protect those suffering the worst climate impacts and helping them to adapt to changing climates. Cancun proved to be a watershed moment for Oxfam, enabling us to evaluate our climate change campaign. As a result, we have identified areas for improvement, particularly how we can enable our campaigners to adapt to changing political contexts during high-level events. (NGO3)
A giant message in a bottle from millions of the worlds poorest people washes up on a beach in Cancun, calling for global action to tackle climate change and for a climate fund to help poor communities adapt to a changing climate.
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4. Economic justice
Women leading in agriculture
Women are responsible for the majority of food production in many developing countries. Small-scale women producers are integral to meeting the growing global demand for food and are becoming more involved in agricultural markets in developing countries. Yet in comparison to their male counterparts, women are often limited by poor access to the services and resources needed to enter and compete properly in agricultural markets. So their engagement in markets does not necessarily result in increased incomes or more secure assets, or greater decision-making capacity. Oxfams Womens Economic Leadership (WEL) program helps women to gain economic and social power in agriculture. On World Rural Womens Day on October 15, 2010, Oxfam launched the Grow. Sell.Thrive. online community www.growsellthrive.org which provides a platform to share good practices and approaches, and to address common challenges with the wider development community. This website showcases examples of our program work, links tools and resources, provides information about past and upcoming events, and hosts discussion groups. On March 8, 2011, Oxfam and our partners all over the world marked the 100th anniversary of International Womens Day with events and awareness-raising activities on every continent. Oxfam events included a conference in Mexico on climate change and food security and the related issues for rural women. Oxfam also supported groups hosting local events in Australia showing films and exhibits to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on women producers living on the Pacific islands. In Canada, Oxfam volunteers organized parades and presentations across the country, sporting banners with the message women feed the world, and conducted a Letter to the Editor campaign targeting newspapers and blogs. Oxfam is part of the EQUALS campaign, a partnership of leading charities that have come together to demand a more equal world. Brought together by Oxfams Global Ambassador Annie Lennox OBE the EQUALS coalition is a partnership of charities and organisations that believe men and women are equals and that we should have equal rights, equal opportunities and equal representation in politics, education, health, employment, family life and media and culture. The EQUALS coalition used International Womens Day to renew the call for an equal world. www.weareequals.org/
(NGO6 , NGO3)
INTEGRATING GENDER (NGO4) We work hard to integrate a gender justice perspective into our programs and campaigns, so that womens empowerment and gender equality is part of all our work. Gender policy advisers have been engaged in all stages of our campaigning on economic justice. This has led to measurable improvements in our campaign design, such as guidelines on engendering policy and advocacy work, including setting explicit policy objectives and benchmarks on gender equality in measurement frameworks. We are also building upon our engagement with womens rights networks and agricultural producer organizations as key allies who will work with us on strategies and monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Oxfam Mexico convened a major forum with allies on the impact of climate change and food security on rural women. The event included a photo exhibition showing women in agriculture across Latin America.
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4. Economic justice
Looking forward
In 2011, Oxfam began weaving together our existing policy and advocacy work on agriculture, climate change and gender into a new and ambitious campaign focused on food security in a world with constrained resources. Drawing on these efforts and our years working on the ground with partners, community organizations and small-scale food producers, we will formally launch the GROW Campaign www.oxfam.org/grow in June 2011.
(NGO1)
LEARNING FROM OUR WORK Our campaigns work to a six monthly reporting timeline, with continual monitoring of key issues and real-time evaluations of short-term projects and events. Learning from our climate change evaluations has informed the structuring of our monitoring and evaluation systems within the GROW campaign. We will conduct quarterly progress reviews by teams campaigning at the national, regional and global levels and will track our progress against our milestones and gender objectives.
(NGO3)
Our goal for GROW is that people living in poverty claim power in the way the world manages land, water, and climate change, so that they can grow or buy enough food to eat, now, and in the future. We will work with others to engage in the public debate about food, womens rights, better ways of living, and the future of our planet, with the aim to empower people, share knowledge, take action and build a better future.
(NGO6)
We will adjust our campaign direction as necessary and in consultation with our stakeholders, escalating changes to the highest level if the shift implied is fundamental. We are committed to fair and accurate criticism, and will ensure that our quality controls and brand risk management are exercised with clear sign-off protocols and with rigorous scrutiny on accuracy and fairness across our public campaigning, policy, advocacy and media work. Any criticisms of companies or governments will be vetted by our lawyers. Campaign targets will be given advance notice and right of reply. (NGO5)
Bhadra Bahadur Tapar of Dola village, Nepal, holds his Oxfam-supplied wheat seeds which he insists are better suited to the irregular rainfall that has resulted from climate change. By providing new drought-resistant seeds, and funding the construction of reservoirs, Oxfam is helping the village to become more food-secure.
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Hong Na and Hom Nay attend lessons at the Oxfam-built school in Kampong Pang, Cambodia
5. Essential Services
Every day, approximately 1,000 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Of all maternal 2 deaths, 99 per cent occur in developing countries . Each day, 22,000 children under five die, and in Sub-Saharan 3 Africa, one in eight children will die before their fifth birthday . This is an outrage in the 21st Century. Oxfam believes we can change this and achieve essential services for all people living in poverty. Women and girls especially should be able to realize their rights to accessible and affordable health, education, water and sanitation. In 2010-11, Oxfam focused on delivering health and education programs and we campaigned with others to ensure that policies and sustainable financing are in place so that the poorest countries are able to deliver essential services to all of their citizens. We also increased our focus on campaigning in southern countries. (NGO5)
Maternal Mortality Factsheet, The World Health Organization (2010) http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs348/en/index.html Levels & Trends in Child Mortality, United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2010) http://www.unicef.org/media/files/UNICEF_Child_mortality_for_web_0831.pdf
Anastacia Bose with daughter Neisiona Colo, participants in Oxfams health program in Bineno, East Timor. The program offers practical help to new mothers, including baby weighing, and advice on breast-feeding and nutrition.
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5. Essential Services
Increasing the provision of essential services
Young people and HIV/AIDS in Thailand
Thailand is home to around 800,000 people living with HIV and AIDS. Oxfam supports the Program for HIV Prevention and Treatment (PHPT) which assists HIV and AIDS sufferers who are often marginalized within their communities. PHTP ensures that those suffering with HIV and AIDS are integrated into the Program through participation in community groups which also consist of doctors, nurses, health volunteers, community elders and carers.
(NGO4)
Access to HIV medicines still remains a huge challenge in Thailand, with medicines costing as much as double the average Thai monthly salary. Oxfam has helped the Thai government to renew patent licenses for key medicines to treat AIDS, cancer and heart disease, extending treatment to over 200,000 additional people in the country.
Globally, Oxfam and partners have lobbied to ensure the launch of UNITAID whose mission is to scale up access to treatments for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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PHPT also runs camps where young people living with HIV can meet and learn about safe sex and the importance of taking their own medicines on time. They can also discuss the challenges of disclosing their HIV status to friends. For some children, the camp will be one of the few opportunities to play with other children outside school.
Amy is a lively thirteen-year-old who is living with HIV in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her mother and father died of HIV, and she lives with her grandmother, who cares for her, and her two uncles. Both Amy and her grandmother attend the Program for HIV Prevention and Treatment childrens camps organized by the community and funded by Oxfam. Oxfam also organizes frequent home counseling visits, where health volunteers explain the importance of taking HIV medication to the children and their carers. Suzi OKeefe/Oxfam
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These groups provide a range of counseling and support for young people with HIV and their carers. The groups meet regularly to discuss the key needs within their community and to prepare proposals for funding. By specifically targeting local needs, the community has developed a sense of ownership over the programs, which means that the community groups can become self-sufficient over time.
I have to take three types of pill two times a day luckily I have my grandma who helps to remind me. I dont know what happens if I dont take them. I tell some of my close friends that I take these drugs, but no one else. Amy
5. Essential Services
School building in Cambodia
In Cambodia, decades of civil war destroyed vast amounts of the countrys human resources and infrastructure. In many remote communities, children are continuing to grow up without basic primary education. A lack of facilities, infrastructure and available teachers often means that education is simply not an option. Oxfams school building program provides much needed access to primary education by working with local communities and the Cambodian government to build well equipped schools that provide a safe, accessible environment, even during periods of harsh seasonal weather. Oxfam funds and co-ordinates the construction of schools, including buying materials and hiring contractors. Local communities are involved throughout the construction process, contributing labor, and sourcing local materials. Oxfam also works with the Department of Education so that we can handover and exit the program once completed, leaving the government to provide teachers and materials. Members of the local community adopt the role of maintaining the school, to ensure sustainability without dependency on NGOs. (NGO1, SO1) Oxfams program has resulted in many more children being able to go to primary school and have further opportunities.
Ainhoa Goma /Oxfam
Teacher
At five recently built schools, 573 students (49 per cent of whom are girls) are now regularly attending school, with at least 29 per cent studying for the first time. Toilet facilities and the close proximity of schools to homes are seen as key to getting girls to go to school. Schools are also built with housing for teachers, which helps to offset low teaching salaries, retain staff and reduce the number of teachers seeking supplementary income (which often leads to reduced teaching hours).
Hong Na and Hom Nay at school in, Kampong Pang village, Stung Treng Province, Cambodia. Oxfam supported the building of a school in this village in 2011. Previously, the village had no school and if students wanted to attend school, they had to travel a long way to the nearest school. This was especially difficult during the wet season.
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At five recently built schools, 573 students (49 per cent of whom are girls) are now regularly attending school, with at least 29 per cent studying for the first time. Toilet facilities and the close proximity of schools to homes are seen as key to getting girls to go to school. Schools are also built with housing for teachers, which helps to offset low teaching salaries, retain staff and reduce the number of teachers seeking supplementary income (which often leads to reduced teaching hours).
The school was built here in 2009, we have a vision for the school. We want to make a place where students love to study. We want to create a lovely environment. We also want all students who finish primary school, to go on to secondary school. Lay Sokheam
In 2011, we undertook an evaluation of our school building program in Cambodia. We organized focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders, including students, parents, teachers, village leaders, government employees and Oxfam staff, maintaining a gender balance where possible. Many people commented that the participation of the local community creates a strong sense of local ownership and active citizenship, which helps to ensure the sustainability of schools. However some members of the community who are still battling with extreme poverty have struggled to contribute to the program in a consistent way and have felt pressured to do so. Oxfam staff responded to this challenge by developing a communal system of support, with various people contributing food, childcare, labour or materials, which eased the burden on everyone. All communities reported a strong sense of pride in their completed school, which has led to the effective maintenance of all schools. Oxfams approach has also influenced decision-makers in the Thai government, which recognizes the focus on ownership in building schools is invaluable for ensuring the sustainability of schools. This will continue to have a positive impact as the government takes greater responsibility for building schools in the future.
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5. Essential Services
Campaigning for health and education
(NGO6)
EVALUATING OUR CAMPAIGN The launch of the Ghana report is currently being evaluated and these findings will feed into our campaign planning to ensure we continue to improve our campaigning, and also to signal when we should complete the campaign.
(NGO3, SO1)
In addition to our program work, Oxfam continued to campaign for better health and education last year. With many other organizations, we launched our Financial Transactions Tax Campaign, calling for a small tax on financial transactions, which we estimate could help to raise 290 billion euros annually to finance health and education programs. Through this work we are supporting governments to harness greater domestic resources through equitable tax systems, ensuring that major corporations pay their fair share of taxes wherever they operate.
We have also further developed our campaigning model focusing more on campaigning in program countries (NGO5). A dedicated group was created to evaluate our work in this area, resulting in the development of a clear set of principles on campaigning in program countries. These new principles have been formally communicated within Oxfam via updates on teleconferences and emails to key staff.
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Oxfam
Oxfam campaigners call for a Financial Transaction Tax or Robin Hood Tax to raise funds for health and education programs
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5. Essential Services
Aid effectiveness
Oxfam challenges international institutions, corporations and decision-makers to ensure that their policy and practice helps and does not hinder poor countries in meeting the target of universal healthcare and education for all. A key part of this work is ensuring that there is sustainable funding for essential services. This requires an examination not only of aid quantity but also its quality and effectiveness. Aid plays a role in saving millions of lives but critics often use individual examples of failed aid to argue for reduction or phase out of aid altogether. In 2010, Oxfam challenged criticisms by publishing the report 21st Century Aid to examine the evidence. We found that while there is much room for improvement, good quality aid is indispensable in unlocking peoples ability to work their own way out of poverty. We have also used social media to push for more effective aid. Our MDG VOICE project saw Oxfam working with other NGOs and key bloggers from around the world to raise the profile of aid and development at the United Nations Millennium Development Goal Summit. The level of engagement with the bloggers by leading politicians demonstrated the added value that working with social media has for NGOs. MDG VOICE bloggers reached well over 100,000 people with their messages.
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Reshma, 10 years old, from Qambar Shahdadkot, carries water from an Oxfam provided tap in Shahbaz camp. Her community was hit by the floods in July 2010 the worst floods in Pakistans history.
6. Rights in Crisis
Oxfam believes that all women and men in humanitarian crises should be given both the protection and the assistance they need in a manner consistent with their human rights. The growing number of disasters, such as floods, hurricanes and cyclones, hit those who are most vulnerable hardest. Conflict too threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions, trapping them in a vicious cycle of violence and poverty. In 2010 - 2011, while continuing its relief efforts in Haiti, Oxfam also responded to new emergencies. In August 2010, huge flooding hit Pakistan. Then two Oxfam affiliates witnessed the devastation of natural disasters in their own countries as two earthquakes struck New Zealand, followed by a huge earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan. Later that year saw conflict in Ivory Coast, with refugees fleeing to Liberia and neighboring countries. At the same time, a number of forgotten crises continued. The food crisis across the Sahel, ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and continued displacement in Darfur and Chad are just some of the emergencies which Oxfam has been responding to daily. We also increased our focus on how states and the UN can increase their capacity to manage disasters and to reduce the impacts of disasters, in recognition of the rise in their frequency.
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Lunie Girard, a community mobilizer with Oxfam, at a hygiene-promotion session in Cap Haitien, Haiti. As part of Oxfams cholera response and prevention program, residents are taught the importance of washing hands to avoid infection by cholera
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Pakistan floods
In July 2010, monsoon rains caused devastating floods which consumed up to one-fifth of Pakistan. 20 million people were affected, 1.6 million homes were destroyed and over 14 million people were left acutely vulnerable. Faced by these huge challenges, Oxfam undertook our largest-ever humanitarian response. We took an early decision to focus on reaching as many people as possible to save lives quickly and efficiently through early warning and evacuation programs. We provided safe water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities, emergency food and shelter, and cash grants for people to meet their immediate needs. Oxfam was able to get to work quickly and effectively by using our strong network of local partners and long-established relationship with local government.
Oxfams response
Clean water and sanitation we provided facilities to nearly 1.6 million people. Hygiene kits we supplied hygiene kits to almost 1.4 million people, and hygiene advice to over 940,000 people. Financial grants we gave 5,000 rupees (approx. 45 Euros) to over 270,000 people to help them provide basic needs for their families for 2 to 3 weeks. Cash-for-work schemes we provided communities with a vital cash injection of cash for almost 200,000 people. Cash vouchers were a critical component of our early response to the floods, ensuring people could buy food in the days following the disaster. People affected by floods insisted that Oxfams offering of cash, rather than food, was a more appropriate and empowering approach. Our evaluation of this scheme led to Oxfam contributing to the development of standards on cash and vouchers published in Sphere, a respected handbook for humanitarian practitioners.
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Winter kits 12,000 winter kits (containing woolen bedding and clothing) many of which were knitted by local people as part of Oxfams cash-for-work schemes. (NGO1) Shelter 232,000 people benefited from Oxfams emergency shelter program.
Children in a camp for displaced people outside Hyderabad, Sindh province, Pakistan, January 2011
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Listening to local voices (NGO1, NGO2, NGO3)
At all stages of our response, Oxfam has been keen to work with those affected by the floods. To encourage feedback from local communities, we set up information points in camps for residents. It was important that residents knew that any concerns and complaints would be dealt with effectively on a daily basis. Banners in the camps displayed mobile phone numbers for people to call. Various committees were set up for residents to run the camp activities. Ensuring a diverse mix of people on the committees men and women, children, or people from differing social groups was integral to success, and sometimes womenonly sub-groups were initiated to ensure that women could speak freely. A number of adaptations to programs were carried out in camps in response to feedback from communities about how best to provide sanitation. For example, the design of latrines was changed in one camp where women refused to use them because the plastic sheeting around the latrines made them too hot and they feared the noise that the plastic makes. Community feedback has been effective in informing how we help affected communities and we have firmly embedded community engagement in our work as a development tool.
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As reconstruction begins, it is critical that the poorest people have a say in their communities. Oxfam is supporting community groups and is urging the government and multinational institutions to properly consult and discuss reconstruction plans with affected people to ensure that their needs are met.
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Ruined land in Dadu district, Sindh province, Pakistan. The floods affected an unprecedented 21 million people in the Indus valley region. Huge numbers of farmers lost their livelihoods, with much of the land still underwater or rendered useless for cultivation. Much of next years seed has been ruined.
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Haiti earthquake
The huge earthquake which hit Haiti on January 12, 2010 and its aftermath have proved to be one of the most complex emergencies in history, with more than 300,000 people killed, vast parts of Port-au-Prince destroyed, and over a million people made homeless. The response was extremely challenging, not just due to the scale of the destruction, but because well before the earthquake hit, Haiti suffered from extreme poverty, gross inequality, chronic political instability, and corrupt state institutions. Oxfams earthquake response program moved rapidly so that by the end of January 2011, over 500,000 people had benefited. Oxfams program in Haiti has focused on the following areas: Clean water we provided over 300 million liters of clean water each month to approximately 400,000 people in the camps and other areas. Working with other NGOs Oxfam has played a key role in co-ordinating with other international agencies through the so-called WASH and Shelter Clusters to ensure that as the aid response unfolds, water is distributed equitably and in sufficient quantities. (NGO6) Sanitation we built 2,500 latrines and 1,032 bathing shelters, which the camp residents and local people continue to maintain. Hygiene kits we supplied more than 120,000 people with personal care items, such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, sanitary pads, and towels. Waste disposal Oxfam worked with the local authority on the disposal of refuse. Livelihoods our livelihoods and food security program has benefited more than 40,000 households. We have supported local food sellers, offered grants to help support people restart businesses, and set up cash-for-work programs. Shelter 94,000 people benefited from Oxfams emergency shelter program. Oxfam supplied tarpaulins, tents, mosquito nets and other household kits containing basic necessities. Health promotion community members have been recruited and trained to work as mobilizers in the camps to reinforce messages about good health and clean sanitation facilities.
and waste management center. Community members also talked to Oxfam partners, reporting on progress and raising concerns through official channels, and playing a key role in resolving conflict. Involving local people in creating a concrete vision for the rebuilding of their community has created a sense of ownership and hope for the future, and it is the community now that will ensure that the government and aid agencies continue to listen to them, and keep their plans on track.
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Carrying concrete blocks uphill in Carrefour Feuilles, Port au Prince, Haiti, as part of reconstruction work.
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Liberia and Ivory Coast conflicts
In April 2011 more than 300,000 people remained displaced from their homes in the Ivory Coast. Food is a particular concern in these areas where resources are running low. Oxfam is providing life-saving water, sanitation and food to more than 100,000 people in western Ivory Coast, one of the worst hit areas of the conflict. In Liberia, we are targeting several villages with supplies of seeds (okra, sweet potato, rice, aubergine, and chilies), tools, and food to help them replenish their supplies from the support they gave to refugees.
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Ongoing conflict
in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
An upsurge of fighting in the Eastern DRC has seen up to 900,000 people flee their homes since the start of 2009. Communities have been torn apart, homes have been burned to the ground, and thousands of women have been raped. A government military offensive, backed by the United Nations, has made the situation even more dangerous for Congolese civilians. We are working with local partner organizations to provide vital clean water and sanitation and to promote good health practices and human rights. New figures show that over the past two years, the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) has become the most deadly militia in the DRC. In the last year alone, more than 1,000 people have been killed or abducted in nearly 200 separate attacks in two remote districts of the DRC. In December 2010, Oxfam began working publicly on a campaign to raise awareness of the threat to the safety and welfare of women, men and children. We launched a report called the Ghosts of Christmas Past which was endorsed by 29 agencies working in the DRC. We also sent Christmas cards to the UN Security Council, reminding them of their responsibility to address this issue. We are constantly evaluating our efforts to ensure that our response is effective. In both Liberia and Ivory Coast, Oxfam has undertaken Real Time Evaluations (RTEs) which happen between 6 to 12 weeks after the start of the response, and give a quick snap-shot of how the program is progressing with recommendations for improvement. These evaluations have shown us that monitoring, evaluation and learning systems should be set up as soon as possible following the outset of a crisis. RTEs maximize the chance for early corrective actions to shape our programs. They offer an opportunity for field staff working under pressure to voice their opinions and to feed into a process of change and decisionmaking for the next phase. They also allow staff and partners who designed and set up the program to input into evaluations before they leave and move on to other emergencies. RTEs help team-building, boost morale, and at times resolve tensions including those between affiliate head office and the staff in affected countries.
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RTEs encourage accountability to the affected population and other stakeholders. In cases where partners are not direct members of the RTE teams, they are interviewed and their feedback is used to elaborate the findings and recommendations. Unless there are security constraints, RTEs also include focus group discussions with members of beneficiary communities, to capture feedback on their participation, and their views on the design, implementation and the impact of the program. (NGO2) RTEs are now standard practice across Oxfam, affording us continued learning to strengthen our practice. Similar approaches were taken in response to the East African food crises, and further work is being undertaken to develop appropriate longerterm evaluations in humanitarian crises.
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Pauline, 16, was abducted when the LRA attacked her school two years ago. She was kidnapped for a year, made to be a wife to an LRA soldier who was himself kidnapped when he was ten. Pauline escaped and now lives in Dungu, in a camp for internally displaced people.
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Further responses
Japan
The earthquake in March 2011 left 15,129 people confirmed dead with 9,034 still missing in May 2011. Around 4.4 million households in north-eastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water. Oxfam started a one year relief and rehabilitation program through five local partner organizations. The program will provide assistance, information and services to 90,900 marginalized households (250,000 people) that have not yet benefited from the governments response.
Looking forward
We recognize that in emergency responses, some organizations are better placed to deliver certain services than others. Therefore we have made the decision to focus our efforts on two key areas of work: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene); and FSVL (Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods). Oxfam is well known for its expertise in WASH, and more recently we have been strengthening our expertise in food security programs (this includes cash schemes, such as small business grants and cash-for-work schemes, as well as programs in agriculture, fisheries, livestock and nutrition). WASH and FSVL are now officially Oxfams two core competencies. We are supporting the growth of these specializations by creating space for sharing and developing common approaches and tools in working groups made up of specialists from across the Oxfam Confederation. Minimum standards have now been developed, which will help ensure that we have sufficient resources such as staff and supplies to respond to emergencies.
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Internally, we continue to strengthen the Oxfam Humanitarian Consortium Management Group, which co-ordinates all our emergency responses. The Consortium consists of selected affiliates, working together to provide strategic direction and support for Oxfams humanitarian work. We will also continue to co-ordinate with other international agencies, using mechanisms such as the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, to share learning and strengthen humanitarian responses, and the UN cluster system, whereby UN agencies and partners adopt a lead organization concept to cover critical gaps in providing protection and assistance.
East Africa
A severe drought, caused by two consecutive periods of failed rains, has hit the Horn of Africa. Up to 12 million people across the region have lost their assets and livelihoods and are in dire need of food, water and sanitation. In some areas 60 to 80 per cent of livestock, the primary driver of the local economy, has died. Markets are functioning in some areas but not in others. Loss of life on a large scale is a real risk. Oxfam expects that the crisis will escalate in 2011 and we will be monitoring and responding to the situation.
A hygiene-promotion session in Carrefour, Haiti. Oxfam is well-known for its expertise in WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
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Women from Nasapir Karamoja village in north-eastern Uganda, gather to plant tree seedlings. Recognizing the importance of women in local farming, Oxfam has provided more than a thousand saplings to women to plant
7. Gender Justice
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Ainhoa Goma/Oxfam Sadaf Haruzel, 17, a member of the Girlss Boxing team in Kabul, photographed at The National Stadium. Boxing is making a comeback in Afghanistan after it was banned by the Taliban Regime. For the first time in the history of Afghanistan the country also now has an Afghan Amateur Womens Boxing Association. Oxfam is supporting the womens boxing team through Afghan peace-building organisation Co-operation for Peace and Unity.
Oxfam envisions a safe and just world, where women and girls gain power over every aspect of their lives and live free from violence. We believe that systematic discrimination against women and girls is a pervasive cause and consequence of the power inequality that drives poverty. To achieve a world without poverty and injustice, gender justice is fundamental and we have specific programs in our work across the world. Gender justice is considered core to our program quality and our program standards specifically require gender equality to be integrated into all of our programs. We contribute to change by cultivating and encouraging shifts in womens and mens consciousness, challenging informal cultural norms and exclusionary practices. Oxfam engages with a wide range of actors, including both womens organizations and mixed organizations working to advance gender equality. We especially value relationships with womens rights organizations and aim for our alliances and partnerships to be deeply inclusive because they are key agents of change. (NGO1, NGO6)
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Gender based violence
Violence against women remains a global pandemic, with one in three women experiencing physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime4. Oxfams work aims to reduce the social acceptance of gender-based violence and eliminate its incidence. center of its kind in the district, is essential in supporting survivors of domestic violence. Around 90 per cent of Nana Kundis clients found their counseling very helpful, with one client commenting:It resolved my problem with my husband and now we are living happily with our six children. I found that his habit of sexual abuse just stopped. Legal services have also been successful,with 79 per cent of court cases penalizing the perpetrators of violence. Accommodation services have also played a crucial role. Two-thirds of Nana Kundis past female clients noted that the violence perpetrated by their husbands stopped as a result of its services.
UNITE to end Violence Against Women, Fact Sheet, United Nations http://un.org/en/women/endviolence/pdf/VAW.pdf
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A lifeline in South Africa
Many women and girls continue to have little control over their fertility, sexuality or marital choices. Our programs promote womens leadership and participation as a key strategy for development. In Durban, South Africa, Oxfam partner, Lifeline, is making a difference to the lives of former and current sex workers. Since 2002, Lifeline has been running a drop-in center and outreach program, providing information and support to sex workers who risk violence, rape, and HIV infection. The drop-in center is open during the day for counseling, HIV testing, condoms, refuge, referral and nutrition advice. Classes in hairdressing, sewing and beadwork also provide the women with skills to help them earn money. Around the clock, teams of outreach workers are out on the streets speaking with sex workers and their clients. Sex workers are offered male and female condoms, individual counseling, information about HIV testing and other health issues. Most of these girls (sex workers) have run away from home after theyve been sexually abused, says Vuyi Mbele, Lifeline Project Manager. The program continues to provide important information, education and support for sex workers in Durban and surrounding areas in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Outreach worker Zama (right) from the drop-in center in Durban, South Africa, demonstrates the correct way to put on a condom.
The SOFA Report 2011: Women and Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development, by the Food and Agriculture Organization International Fund for Agricultural Development
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Amplifying the voice of rural women
Women are the main producers of food in developing countries, yet they continue to be denied access and control over vital resources, such as land and credit.5 This has implications for their empowerment and their ability to increase food for their families.6 Oxfam works with the Joint Women and Rights Program in Central America, to amplify the voice of rural women through the Vamos al Grano campaign. This campaign promotes the role of small-scale agriculture as a tool for reducing food insecurity and rural poverty in Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. Oxfam conducted group sessions with campaign staff to identify areas where womens rights are being overlooked. The results showed that women are often not perceived as viable, legitimate or strong political actors. Male leaders lacked gender sensitivity and a more inclusive political positioning of womens demands. These perceptions marked the need to train those involved in the campaign on gender and communication. This in turn helped create a stronger campaign, one that was shared by both men and women. At every stage, Oxfam has ensured that women have been the voice of the campaign.
LEARNING FROM OUR GENDER WORK Oxfams experience with Vamos al Grano has shaped a holistic learning process, for both partners and Oxfam, about the importance of including womens organizations in campaigns from the development phase up to and including implementation.
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The learning from this campaign has informed campaign planning for Oxfams GROW campaign work, particularly in Central America, but also more generally how we work with national and sub-national alliances.
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We have embedded gender experts within our campaign for economic justice, leading to measurable improvements in campaign design and within national campaigns which have made the rights of women food producers explicit. This has been achieved through; developing gender policy change objectives; identifying womens rights organizations as key allies, working with allies to develop joint strategies, advocacy events and materials and implementing a gender-specific monitoring and an evaluation and learning plan.
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Preparing in case disaster strikes (NGO1)
Oxfam has worked hard to ensure that we have minimum standards on integrating a gender strategy into our humanitarian response, and has produced a handbook that provides examples of best practice. As well as responding to emergencies, Oxfam works with local communities to implement disaster risk reduction strategies to help communities react quickly when disaster strikes. Understanding how gender relations shape the lives of men and women is key to disaster risk reduction. Unequal power relations between women and men may mean that women can be highly vulnerable in emergencies. Women in eastern Indonesia have been enthusiastic about joining in and leading activities on disaster risk reduction, seeing the importance of improving their knowledge on preparing for disasters. In joining Village Disaster Preparedness Teams, they identified how their skills can be used and why their contributions are important. Sabarni is a housewife who volunteered to become a member of her local team. If a disaster occurs, she will work in the field kitchen preparing food for those displaced from their homes by floods and landslides. Her duties include collecting food during the onset of a disaster, preparing the food hygienically so as to limit the spread of disease, and, most importantly, monitoring the supplies of food during the immediate recovery period. In addition to volunteering in the team, Sabarni also took the initiative to motivate her friends and neighbors to prepare for possible disasters. Some were inspired to attend first aid courses. Others were motivated to plant trees in the hills near their farms, so as to reduce the risk of landslides occurring. By discussing disaster preparedness in informal settings, Sabarni educates those in the village who would not otherwise have access to such knowledge and information. Her social networks provide valuable channels of communication among villagers. Sabarni and other team members have also had the chance to practice their responses in disaster simulations. By recognizing womens important role in disaster response, the community increasingly value womens work. If a disaster strikes, womens contributions will be vital in helping people survive, and in reducing the losses incurred by the whole community.
Looking forward
Oxfam understands that discrimination and injustice are major causes of poverty worldwide. Gender equality underpins all of our work across the world and we will continue to integrate gender issues in every aspect of our work, being careful to ensure that both women and men benefit equally. Were aware that there is no easy way to remove gender discrimination, as it is always specific to its context. We will continue to help women campaign for legal reform in countries with laws that disadvantage women. We will also help women acquire functional literacy skills so they can work, and we will endeavor to raise the income of some of the worlds poorest families through community finance programs targeted at women. We will work with women to strengthen their voices in their communities, so they can become leaders and spokespeople, and we will help women to understand their human rights, so they will not have to accept violence as part of their lives.
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Women participating in a community vulnerability analysis activity in Thaung Tan village, Indonesia. Oxfams disaster risk reduction work includes helping develop community action plans. Our village is getting stronger. Almost all of the people listen to the weather report on the radio now, explains Daw Than Myint. If another cyclone comes, we plan to run to the new concrete school built by Oxfam. It was designed to be a shelter in times of a cyclone.
Oxfam
Oxfam would not exist without the support of the millions of people across the world who donate, support the Oxfam shops, participate and organize events and buy gifts from Oxfam Unwrapped. The many generous donors, individuals, organizations and companies who support us year in and year out are crucial to our work in saving lives, developing programs to help people overcome poverty, and campaigning for social justice. Thousands of Oxfam supporters across the world give a regular gift to Oxfam totaling 159m in 2010-2011. This is one of Oxfams most important sources of income, as it enables us to plan ahead and use the funds where we know they will make the biggest difference. We owe tremendous thanks to our supporters7.
Oxfam shops
Oxfam has over 1,200 shops run almost entirely by volunteers in eight countries across the world. Oxfam shops sell donated goods such as clothes, books, household goods and other valuable items. An estimated 35,000 people volunteer in Oxfam shops across the Oxfam Confederation and many millions of people donate goods every year. We also have shops that specialize in selling Fair Trade products. Fair Trade has been one of the most successful civil society movements of recent years and Oxfam was one of the pioneers over 40 years ago. Fair Trade is about paying poor producers a fair price for their products, and helping producers to gain the necessary skills and knowledge to develop their businesses so they can work their way out of poverty. Fair Trade also contributes to Oxfams economic justice change goal, enabling Oxfam to provide an alternative sustainable development tool for marginalized producer groups to develop secure and sustainable livelihoods.
Oxfam Unwrapped
Oxfams alternative gift catalogue, Oxfam Unwrapped, has been extremely successful across the Confederation: raising money for projects overseas; recruiting new Oxfam supporters; and generating publicity. Instead of the usual Christmas, Eid, Diwali, Chanukah, birthday or wedding gifts, Oxfam supporters can buy vitural gifts either online or through a catalogue, such as goats, chickens, school books, bicycles, buckets, seeds and much more. The famous Oxfam goat remains one of the most popular gifts across the world. The goat even has his own Facebook page and is named Archie!
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During my trips Ive met some incredible people whose lives are changing because of Oxfam Unwrapped. I met a woman in Uganda who was able to start up a small business selling groundnuts she is now making enough money to send her grandchildren to school. Kristin Davis
Institutional fundraising
Oxfam receives grants from various institutions including the European Union, United Nations and from governments in many countries. These grants, which make an enormous difference to Oxfams impact around the world, are usually earmarked for a particular project, country, or area of work, and include grants for humanitarian emergencies. Institutional grants require detailed proposals from our staff, and also stringent reporting on the outcomes that have been achieved.
Emergency fundraising
In 2010-11, Oxfam supporters were extremely generous in response to emergencies through public appeals. In total Oxfam spent 257.7m on strategic aim Life and Security. We also raise money in coalition with the NGOs, several of Oxfams affiliates are part of humanitarian fundraising consortiums in their countries, including Oxfam Great Britain in the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) in the UK, Oxfam Canada and Oxfam Quebec in the Humanitarian Coalition in Canada, and Oxfam Novib in the Co-operating Aid Agencies in the Netherlands (SHO). Being part of coalitions during emergencies can help members to raise more money, be more cost-effective and accountable, and ensure that emergencies are kept in the news as much as possible.
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Trailwalker participants in Barcelona, Spain.
This event was extremely challenging, but also it was inspiring to witness the commitment of so many of our supporters and volunteers. Jeremy Hobbs
The Guide outlines the principles for relationships between Oxfam and the private sector, and requires ethical screens to be conducted on all potential donors. We are also developing fundraising standards for restricted grants and we are looking more widely at community fundraising. At the national level, each affiliate must adhere to the codes and guidelines of the country in which they are based. For example, Oxfam Great Britain, as a member of the UK Fundraising Standards Board, must submit an annual complaint report to them.8 Each affiliate is responsible for tracking and resolving complaints of breaches of standards for fundraising and marketing practices, and this information is shared within the Oxfam Confederation where necessary. We are currently looking into processes and systems for tracking the number of complaints across the Confederation.
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Consolidated monetary value of funding received by source. Revenue by Source Institutional Fundraising Revenue
UN and UN Institutions EU and EU Institutions Other Supranational Institutions Home Government Institutions
The six largest donors and the monetary value of their contribution. Million 356
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These figures represent consolidated income across the Confederation (14 affiliates plus the Oxfam International Secretariat). Inter-affiliate (Oxfam) transfers have been not included.
Reporting period: 1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011 All figures in millions of Euro
% 39.8%
3.9% 7.3% 0.1% 22.0% 2.1% 4.4% 0.0%
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Home Government Institutions (Institutional Fundraising Revenue) Trading Revenue * Regular Support (Community Fundraising) Public Appeals (Community Fundraising) EU and EU Institutions (Institutional Fundraising Revenue) NGO & Other (Institutional Fundraising Revenue)
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Total Income Total Expenditure Excess of Income over Expenditure Total Liabilities Net Assets Total Assets
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The Oxfam Financial Standards provide minimum standards that Oxfam affiliates must comply with to ensure adequate internal processes of financial controls. Compliance with minimum standards is monitored through a system of peer reviews, the next round of which is planned to take place in 2012. Each affiliate is responsible for establishing and maintaining their own resource allocation systems and deciding how funds are spent. Further information is available in affiliate annual reports and financial accounts.
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The Oxfam International Secretariat is funded by contributions from Oxfam affiliates, based on each affiliates total income and adjusted to exclude inter-affiliate funding and non-cash items. The contributors to the Secretariats income are show below.
Reporting period: 1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011 All figures in millions of GB Pound
Remaining Affiliates 1.3 (14%) Oxfam Australia 0.4 (4%) Oxfam America 0.6 (7%) Intermn Oxfam (Spain) 0.8 (9%)
The Oxfam International Secretariat is not directly involved with the donors, and therefore relies upon contributing affiliates to ensure that the source of their contributions does not infringe any restrictions imposed by donors. To facilitate this, we operate a system of budgetary control which requires affiliates to authorize expenditure plans. The Secretariat manages expenditure on core functions through internal policies which lay down a system of budgetary control. Budgets are prepared annually, reviewed by the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board and then approved by the Board. During the year, progress against the budget is monitored on a monthly basis by budget holders, and reviewed quarterly by the Finance and Audit Committee. Adhoc funding for specific activities is controlled through specific agreements which outline the purpose of the funding. Each activity is monitored through a specific fund and has a specified budget holder.
In addition to the above measures, the Secretariat maintains a set of policies governing the authorization of expenditure, including authorization limits for procuring goods and services, as well as policies on allowable expenses. These policies apply to all jurisdictions where the Secretariat operates, and are made available to all staff through our intranet. All Secretariat staff receive an induction which covers the main points of these policies as far as they are relevant to their duties. Budgets are also related to departmental and individual work plans which are monitored through objective setting and performance appraisals. The Secretariat prepares financial accounts which follow Generally Accepted Accounting Provisions (GAAP) as applicable to charities registered in the UK, and the accounts are externally audited according to International Auditing Standards (UK and Ireland).
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Section 9 Expenditure
We are accountable to our stakeholders, particularly the men, women and children we seek to help to ensure that our work has the biggest impact for the funds we receive.
9. Expenditure SECTION
Oxfam Confederation Expenditure (GRI 2.8)
Reporting period: 1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011 All figures in millions of Euro
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Category Program
Program Implementation Development & Humanitarian Campaigns Program Management
Million 660
576 524 52 84
% 72%
63% 57% 6% 9%
Trading 16%
Fundraising - Marketing 8% Management & Administration 4% Program Management 9% Program Implementation 63%
Non-program
Management & Administration Fundraising-Marketing Institutional fundraising Community fundraising Trading
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38 72 6 66 141
28%
4% 8% 1% 7% 16%
Expenditure
Total Expenditure
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Reporting period: 1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011 All figures in millions of Euro Other* 3.9% West Africa 9.1%
Million
126.2 84.7 56.7 60.6 12.3 47.9 21.9 8.3 50.6 26.0 78.8 60.3 25.7
%
19.1% 12.8% 8.6% 9.2% 1.9% 7.3% 3.3% 1.3% 7.7% 3.9% 11.9% 9.1% 3.9% South America 3.9% Southern Africa 7.7% Pacific 1.3% Maghreb & Middle East 3.3%
Horn of Africa 7.3%
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Livelihoods 27.0%
Aims
Livelihoods Basic social services Life and security Right to be heard Identity
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Program expenditure for the top 20 countries represents 311.4 million Euro or 47% of total Program expenditure.
Reporting period: 1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011 All figures in millions of Euro
Top 20 countries
Haiti Pakistan Democratic Republic of the Congo Kenya Sudan Zimbabwe Niger Chad Mozambique Ethiopia China Somalia Myanmar Mali Occupied Palestinian Territory Afghanistan Nicaragua Colombia Uganda Plurinational State of Bolivia
Million
57.9 45.0 19.4 18.6 17.6 14.2 13.4 12.4 12.4 12.1 12.1 11.2 10.1 9.9 9.5 7.4 7.4 7.3 7.0 6.8
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(GRI 2.8)
The following are summary figures taken from Stichting Oxfam Internationals Financial Accounts for 2010 -11, which relate to Secretariat operations. The Secretariats main base of operations is in the UK, and therefore we use GBP as our reporting currency. Copies of our accounts are available in full on our website at www.oxfam.org/en/about/accountability.
Reporting period: 1st April 2010 - 31st March 2011 All figures in millions of GB Pound
Income and Expenditure Total Expenditure Excess of income over expenditure Total Income Balance sheet Total Liabilities Net Assets Total Assets 0.6 2.2 2.8 Humanitarian Coordination 0.5 (6%) Planning and Program Development 1.3 (15%) 8.5 0.5 9.0 Advocacy and Campaigning 3.2 (38%) Expenditure Communications 1.4 (16%)
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Oxfams country team in Bolivia celebrates their Go Live to Oxfams Single Management Structure where we will work as one Oxfam within program countries.
Oxfam International Secretariat: composition of governance bodies and breakdown of staff per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership, and other indicators of diversity (LA13)
Grade of Secretariat Staff Member Gender %
Age breakdown %
Under 30 0% 30 - 50 0% 50+ 100% American 4 Brazilian 1 British 10 Dutch 1 Israeli 1 South African 1 American 3 Dutch 2 German 1 Norwegian 1
As of 31st March 2011 Oxfam had 9,299 employed staff and 46,283 volunteers working in 92 countries. The active participation and development of our staff is integral to our success. While each Oxfam affiliate designs their own human resource policies, a number of policies exist at either a global, regional or country level which are common to all affiliates, such as the Oxfam Code of Conduct. As a Confederation, we have adopted human resource standards which every affiliate must follow. These standards illustrate our first steps towards aligning our human resource policies and procedures across the Confederation. Oxfam International Secretariat:
Nationality Statistics*
Disability %
LEVEL A
Australian 2 British 2 German 1 Australian 1 Belgian 2 Canadian 2 French 2 New Zealander 1 Spanish 1 British 12 Filipino 1 Italian 1 Spanish 2
LEVEL B
LEVEL C
Line manager or professional specialist 23 employees
LEVEL D
(1st line manager/ supervisor researcher or non-professional specialist) 13 employees Female 85% Male 15%
LEVEL E
Administrators, clerical and support staff 6 employees
British 3 Greek 1
Canadian 1 Polish 1
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* This year we are reporting our staff and volunteer diversity on the basis of self-identification of ethnicity/nationality. We believe this provides a more detailed and useful picture than before. Oxfam Annual Report 2010 - 2011
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Diversity (NGO4)
Our policies and practices aim to attract and select a diverse workforce with the skills and capabilities to fulfil our requirements. Oxfam is committed to equality, diversity and inclusiveness because we believe that these core values drive our mission and help us attract and retain the best possible staff. Human Resource Directors from each affiliate are working together to identify and eliminate any systemic barriers to diversity and to develop a diversity policy for the Confederation. For example, our recruitment toolkit reminds recruiting managers of their responsibilities in relation to equality and diversity during the recruitment process and throughout the employment relationship. We understand that employing people from local communities can benefit the communities we work in and provide us with a better understanding of local needs. Secretariat practice is to recruit both locally and globally for more senior/specialist posts that require international experience. (EC7)
Oxfam International Secretariat: average hours of training per year by grade level (LA10) Grade level of Secretariat staff Level A Level B Level C Level D Level E
Top leadership role Senior manager or senior specialist Line manager or professional specialist
Per year
35 hours 67.75 hours 49.5 hours 49.5 hours 29.5 hours
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Staff engagement
As an international Confederation, communicating with our staff around the world is vital. We produce a quarterly Confederation newsletter Speaking Out, which highlights Oxfams programs and organizational changes such as the Single Management Structure, as well as current world events affecting our work. Staff also have access to an intranet system where they can share information and communicate using state-of-the art information technology systems. While our external publications are always published in Oxfams core languages, French, English and Spanish, we also aim to translate key internal documents in to these languages for our staff. In addition, we arrange regular lunchtime talks to allow staff to share information on subjects of interest in an informal setting. Within the Secretariat, there are a combination of regular departmental meetings, weekly e-newsletters and quarterly learning events to keep staff informed and to gauge and collect their views. Staff are consulted on any significant changes that affect them, or any proposed changes to terms and conditions. Any changes are managed in line with collective agreements or local legislation requirements and best practice. Staff can provide recommendations to the Oxfam International Management Team directly or through the staff satisfaction survey which was introduced in 2010.
(GRI 4.4)
Ja ne Beesley/Oxfam
Oxfam staff Emilio Huertas and Esther Guilliaume, Haiti, at a canteen owners and beneficiaries end of phase feedback session.
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Table 1 shows the sum of Oxfam Internationals greenhouse gas emissions over three reporting years. Scopes 1, 2 and 3 Refer to the divisions set by the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, whereby: Scope 1 Indicates emissions from the consumption of fuel by Oxfam International Secretariat itself. Table 1: Oxfam International Secretariat Carbon Footprint, measured in tonnes of CO2 equivalent Emission Factors (Tonnes CO2e) GHG Scope 1
Gas
Scope 2 Indicates emissions we produce indirectly through the production of the electricity we purchase. Scope 3 Indicates all other emissions produced indirectly by Oxfam International Secretariat. The majority of our emissions are indirect. We do not have company vehicles, and as such the only fuel we consume directly is gas for our central heating system.
We strive to meet the same environmental standards that we demand from others. Oxfam is seeking reductions in its carbon emissions ranging from five per cent to ten per cent per year over the next five years, which will vary depending on the Oxfam affiliate. In 2010-11, members of the Confederation estimated their combined emissions at 21,433 Tonnes CO2 equivalent ranging from 34 tonnes CO2 equivalent. to 11,643 tonnes CO2 equivalent. This covers direct emissions from fuel use, such as vehicles, generators, boilers and other end-use equipment; and indirect emissions from purchased electricity and air travel. Each affiliate has its own policies and practices for carbon management. For more information please see the affiliate websites and annual reports.
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
11.84
GHG Scope 2
Purchased Electricity 30.56 118.07 45.02
GHG Scope 3
Paper Purchased Waste to Landfill Air Travel Commuter Travel Water 0.73 0.54 485.68 6.03 0.74 0.29 450.92 6.06 0.12 1.75 525.00 4.91 0.85
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We have introduced a house keeping policy which advocates recycling and composting of waste within the office, in order to reduce waste to landfill. To this end we have recycling points set up across the office and a composting point in the kitchen. To reduce purchased electricity staff are prompted by signs to take measures such as switching off any unnecessary lights. For air travel reductions we uphold a travel policy which states that any journey that can be travelled by train door-to-door in less than eight hours, should be. We are also advocating the use of video-conference technology or other communication tools, where a face-to-face meeting is not strictly needed. We are also promoting video-conferencing to the other Oxfam affiliates, and hope to continue to increase its usage across the Oxfam Confederation.
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Our Board is responsible for the Confederations overall performance and compliance, providing strategic direction, effective governance and leadership to co-ordinate the Oxfam affiliates.
Agnes Nangwiri, from Thyolo in Malawi, 8 has been an orphan since she was 4. Her older sister Annie, who is 15, takes care of her. She never misses school and is top of her class (out of 70).
Board committees
There are currently two sub-committees of the Board: the Executive Committee; and the Finance and Audit Committee. The Executive Committee ensures that the Secretariat is equipped to deliver its part of the Strategic and Operational Plans and other such duties delegated by the Board and outlined in the Executive Committees terms of reference. The Finance and Audit Committee ensures thorough financial oversight of the Secretariat, and makes recommendations to the Board in respect of the accounts, the budget and the audit. The process for the establishment of sub-committees is agreed by Board resolution. The Executive Directors of each affiliate also meet as a group bi-annually. The Oxfam International Executive Director works with the affiliates to reach consensus and make recommendations to the Board. They agree the operating architecture of Oxfam and have overall responsibility for initiating and implementing the Strategic Plan.
Oxfam groups
The Global Team supports the agenda of the Executive Directors Group, by providing strategic input and overseeing the operation of Oxfam within parameters agreed by the Executive Directors Group and the Board. The Global Team consists of up to 16 senior staff, nominated by affiliates and selected on merit by the Executive Directors Group. The Global Team is accountable to the Executive Directors Group. The Global Team is responsible for the implementation of the operational plan by directly supporting delivery groups in areas such as campaigning, advocacy, marketing and programs.The Global team promotes monitoring, evaluation and learning initiatives within Oxfam and assists in resolving problems as they arise.
Stichting Oxfam International is registered as a Foundation in The Hague, Netherlands and as a foreign company limited by guarantee in the United Kingdom. Each affiliate is a member of the Foundation and subscribes to the Foundations constitution through an affiliation agreement. The constitution consists of three documents: the Constitution which covers the objectives of Oxfam and the governance of the Board; the Code of Conduct which regulates the use of the Oxfam brand and criteria for membership of Oxfam and the Rules of Procedure which covers procedural aspects of the Board, the affiliation of new members and dispute resolution practice. Affiliates must also sign a trade-mark licence, which enables them to use the Oxfam brand as directed by Stichting Oxfam International. The Foundation is governed by the Oxfam International Board which meets annually. The Board members are the 15 affiliate organizations and a Chair. Each affiliate is represented on the Board by the Chair and Director of the affiliates Board. In March 2011, the Board agreed that the Chair should be an independent member who does not sit on an affiliate Board, and reconfirmed that the Chair is not an Executive Officer of the Foundation. The Deputy Chair and Treasurer are elected from within affiliate Chairs only. Each affiliate holds one vote which is usually exercised by the affiliate Chair, but may be delegated to the affiliate Executive Director. All affiliate Chairs and the Chair of the Board are unpaid non-executive volunteers. The Board delegates the power to manage the Secretariat to the Oxfam International Executive Director, who is selected by the Board and attends Board meetings in an advisery capacity. In turn, the Executive Director leads the Oxfam International Management Team who are all employed by Stichting Oxfam International.
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Section 12 Contact Us
Oxfam is an international Confederation of 15 organizations working together in 92 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. We work directly with communities, and we seek to influence those in power to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.
Robin Hood Tax Stunt in Brussels, September 2010. Braving the weather, Oxfam activists staged a stunt to the European media, part of the coalition work for a financial transaction tax on the transactions of big banks that could deliver billions of dollars to help ordinary people and fight poverty around the world.
12. Contact us
Oxfam
is an international Confederation of 15 organizations working together in 92 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice: Oxfam America, Oxfam Australia, Oxfam-in-Belgium, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam France, Oxfam Germany, Oxfam Great Britain, Oxfam Hong Kong, Oxfam India, Intermn Oxfam (Spain), Oxfam Ireland, Oxfam Mexico, Oxfam New Zealand, Oxfam Novib (Netherlands), and Oxfam Qubec. The Oxfam International Secretariat provides co-ordination and support to the Confederation. For further information about this report contact: information@oxfaminternational.org or visit www.oxfam.org To find out more about our affiliates visit their websites, or contact them on the addresses shown here. Oxfam is committed to being transparent about its activities and we publish vast amounts of information online. We welcome requests for information and feedback on our work. There may be circumstances where we are unable to disclose information, for example for reasons of security, confidentiality or because of the sensitive nature of our internal documents. In the event that we are unable to disclose information, we will provide reasons for non-disclosure.
www.oxfam.org
Oxfam America
Chair: Wendy Sherman Director: Raymond Offenheiser 226 Causeway Street, 5th Floor Boston, MA 02114-2206, USA Tel: +1 617 482 1211 (Toll-free 1 800 77 OXFAM) Email: info@oxfamamerica.org www.oxfamamerica.org
Oxfam GB
Chair: John Gaventa Director: Barbara Stocking Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Cowley,Oxford, OX4 2JY, UK Tel: +44 1865 473727 Email: enquiries@oxfam.org.uk www.oxfam.org.uk
Oxfam Mexico
Chair: Jess Cantu Escalante Director: Carlos Zarco Mera Alabama 105 Col Npoles Delegacin Benito Jurez C.P 03810 . Mxico Tel: + 52 55 5687 3002 / 3203 Email: contacto@oxfammexico.org www.oxfammexico.org
Oxfam Australia
Chair: Michael Henry Director: Andrew Hewett 132 Leicester Street, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia Tel: +61 3 9289 9444 Email: enquire@oxfam.org.au www.oxfam.org.au
Oxfam-in-Belgium
Chair: Eric David Director: Stefaan Declercq Rue des Quatre Vents 60, 1080 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 501 6700 Email: oxfamsol@oxfamsol.be www.oxfamsol.be
Oxfam India
Chair: Kiran Karnik Director: Nisha Agrawal 2nd floor, 1 Community Centre, New Friends Colony, New Delhi, 110 065 India Tel: +91 (0) 11 4653 8000 Email: delhi@oxfamindia.org, www.oxfamindia.org
Oxfam Canada
Chair: Margaret Hancock Director: Robert Fox 39 McArthur Avenue, Ottawa Ontario, K1L 8L7, Canada Tel: +1 613 237 5236 Email: info@oxfam.ca www.oxfam.ca
Oxfam Qubec
Chair: Monique Ltourneau Director: Pierre Vronneau 2330 rue Notre Dame Ouest, bureau 200 Montreal, Quebec, H3J 2Y2, Canada Tel: +1 514 937 1614 Email: info@oxfam.qc.ca www.oxfam.qc.ca The following organizations are currently observer members of Oxfam International, working towards possible full affiliation:
Oxfam France
Chair: Franoise Toutain Director: Luc Lamprire 104 Rue Oberkampf, 75011 Paris, France Tel: + 33 1 56 98 24 40. Email: info@oxfamfrance.org www.oxfamfrance.org
Oxfam Ireland
Chair: Anna McAleavy Director: Jim Clarken Dublin Office, 9 Burgh Quay Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353 1 635 0422 Belfast Office, 115 North St Belfast BT1 1ND, UK Tel: +44 28 9023 0220 Email: info@oxfamireland.org www.oxfamireland.org
Oxfam Japan
Maruko bldg. 2F 1-20-6, Higashi-Ueno, , Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0015, Japan Tel: + 81 3 3834 1556 Email: oxfaminfo@oxfam.jp www.oxfam.jp
Oxfam Germany
Chair: Matthias von Bismarck-Osten Director: Paul Bendix Greifswalder Str. 33a, 10405 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 428 50621 Email: info@oxfam.de www.oxfam.de
Oxfam Italy
Via Fogliano 10, 00199 Rome, Italy Tel +39 0645 432939, Fax +39 0645 438046 Email: comunicazione@oxfamitalia.org www.oxfamitalia.org
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Affiliate fundraising bodies
Ashma, 23 gave birth to Edwina in the hospital and after a smooth delivery and went home later the same day. While pregnant Ashma attended the pre-natal clinic three times, all her treatment and medicines have been free.
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Children from the village of Khawand Bax La Shari, Pakistan, dance to traditional Sindhi songs. Towards the end of 2010 communities affecting by the flooding in Pakistan had started returning to their villages ,with partners Oxfam started work in 92 of these villages supporting the communities as the rebuild their lives.
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Strategy and Profile Disclosures Strategy and Analysis
1.1 Statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organization. - Our Year (p7,8)
Comments
Organizational Profile
2.1 2.2 Name of the organization. Primary activities (e.g., advocacy, social marketing, research, service provision, capacity building, humanitarian assistance, etc.). Indicate how these activities relate to the organizations mission and primary strategic goals (e.g., on poverty reduction, environment, human rights, etc.). Operational structure of the organization, including national offices, sections, branches, field offices, main divisions, operating companies, subsidiaries, and joint ventures. Location of organizations headquarters. Number of countries where the organization operates. Nature of ownership and legal form. Target audience and affected stakeholders. - n/a Oxfam Oxfam is the primary brand for the Confederation. It includes the Oxfam logo, the name Oxfam and our visual identity which prescribes the use of a particular font, layout and colour. We communicate under that brand for all external materials, including our annual report, press releases, websites and policy papers.
- Contact us (p58) - Contact us (p58) - About Oxfam (p4) - Organizational Profile, Oxfam International Board (p56) - Listening to our Stakeholders (p10,11) - About Oxfam (p4) - Fundraising and Income, Footnote 7 (p40), Oxfam Confederation Income (p42) - Oxfam International Secretariat Income (p43), Oxfam Confederation Expenditure (p45, 46, 47), Oxfam International Secretariat Expenditure (p48) - Living Our Values, Our People (p50), Demographics (p50) - Our Year (p7) - n/a None
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Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size, structure, or ownership. Awards received in the reporting period.
Report Profile
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Reporting period (e.g., fiscal/calendar year) for information provided.information provided. Date of most recent previous report (if any). Reporting cycle (annual, biennial, etc.). Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents. - n/a - n/a - n/a - n/a 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 Annual info@oxfaminternational.org
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3.6 Boundary of the report (e.g., countries, divisions, subsidiaries, leased facilities, joint ventures, suppliers). See GRI Boundary Protocol for further guidance.
Comments
This report focuses on the activities of the Confederation. In some areas we have referred the reader to individual Affiliate annual reports or websites for further information. The report also provides information on Secretariat activities. Oxfam does not produce a single set of financial accounts for the Confederation because Affiliates are independent legal operating entities. Confederation financial information included in this report is indicative and does not show the actual performance of any single Affiliate. Specific Affiliate financial information is available in Affiliate annual reports or websites. Information regarding Affiliate joint ventures etc. can be found in Affiliate annual reports. The Secretariat has outsourced some specialist services, for example information technology support and payroll. The reason for outsourcing is primarily to facilitate access to expertise which is not available in-house.
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Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced operations, and other entities that can significantly affect comparability from period to period and/or between organizations. Explanation of the effect of any re-statements of information provided in earlier reports, and the reasons for such re-statement (e.g., mergers / acquisitions, change of base years/periods, nature of business, measurement methods).
- n/a
3.10
- n/a
3.11
Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope, boundary, or measurement methods applied in the report. Table identifying the location of the Standard Disclosures in the report.
- n/a
Last year we published a standalone accountability report using the GRI NGO Reporting Template. This year we have combined our accountability and annual reports, and have, where possible reported on human resources and environmental activities across the Confederation.
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4.14 4.15 List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organization. Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage. - Listening to our Stakeholders (p10,11) - Listening to our Stakeholders (p10,11) - Economic Justice, Rice Farming in Vietnam (p15)
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- Listening to our Stakeholders (p10,11), Economic Justice, Rice Farming in Vietnam (p15), Looking Forward (p19) - Essential Services, Young People and HIV/AIDS in Thailand (p22), School Building in Cambodia (p23), Aid Effectiveness (p25) - Rights in Crisis, Pakistan Floods, Oxfams Response (p28), Listening to Local Voices (p29), Building a Sustainable Future (p29) Haiti Earthquake, Rebuilding the City (p30), Haiti: the Future (p30) - Gender Justice (p35), Violence Against Women in Morocco (p36), Learning from our Gender Work (p37), Preparing in case Disaster Strikes (p38) Listening to our Stakeholders, Involving Local Communities (p10), Working with Partners (p10), Encouraging Feedback (p11) Essential Services, School Building in Cambodia, Evaluating our Programs (p23) Rights in Crisis, Pakistan Floods, Listening to Local Voices (p29), Real Time Evaluations (p32) Living Our Values, Our People, Whistle Blowing (p52) Listening to our Stakeholders, Involving Local Communities (p10), Working with Local Partners (p10) Economic Justice, Climate Change Campaign (p17), Women Leading in Agriculture (p18), Learning from our Work (p19) Essential Services, School Building in Cambodia, Evaluating our Programs (p23), Campaigning for Health and Education, Evaluating our Campaign (p24) Rights in Crisis, Pakistan Floods, Oxfams Response (p28), Listening to Local Voices (p29), Real Time Evaluations (p32) Gender Justice, Violence Against Women in Morocco (p36), Learning from our Gender Work (p37) - Rights in Crisis, Pakistan Floods, Listening to Local Voices (p29) - Gender Justice (p35, 36, 37, 38) - Living Our Values, Our People, Diversity (p51)
NGO2 Mechanisms for feedback and complaints in relation to programs and policies and for determining actions to take in response to breaches of policies.
NGO3 System for program monitoring, evaluation and learning, (including measuring program effectiveness and impact), resulting changes to programs, and how they are communicated.
NGO4 Measures to integrate gender and diversity into program design, implementation, and the monitoring, evaluation, and learning cycle. NGO5 Processes to formulate, communicate, implement, and change advocacy positions and public awareness campaigns. Identify how the organization ensures consistency, fairness and accuracy.
- Listening to our Stakeholders, Involving Local Communities (p10) - Economic Justice, Integrating Gender (p18) - Essential Services, Young People and HIV/AIDS in Thailand (p22)
- Our Year (p8), Listening to our Stakeholders, Uniting Globally (p11) - Essential Services (p21), Evaluating our Campaign (p24) - Economic Justice (p13), Looking Forward, Building our Campaigns (p19) - Rights in Crisis (p27) - Learning from our Work (p19) - Fundraising and Income, Ethical Fundraising (p41) Our Year (p7), Listening to our Stakeholders, Uniting Globally (p11), Fostering Collaboration in the NGO Sector (p11) Economic Justice, Food for Life (p15), Climate Change Campaign (p17), Women Leading in Agriculture (p18), Looking Forward (p19) Essential Services, Campaigning for Health and Education (p24) Rights in Crisis, Pakistan Floods, Building a Sustainable Future (p29), Haiti Earthquake (p30), Looking Forward (p33) Gender Justice (p35), Putting Policy into Practice (p36), Learning from our Gender Work (p37)
NGO6 Processes to take into account and coordinate with the activities of other actors. How do you ensure that your organization is not duplicating efforts?
NGO7 Resource allocation. NGO8 Sources of funding by category and five largest donors and monetary value of their contribution. EC7 Procedures for local hiring and proportion of senior management hired from the local community at locations of significant operation. Do you have a policy or practice for local hiring? If so, report on the proportion of senior management hired from the local community at locations of significant operation.
- Fundraising Income, Oxfam Confederation Income (p42), Oxfam International Secretariat Income (p43) - Fundraising Income, Oxfam Confederation Income (p42), Oxfam International Secretariat Income (p43)
EN16 Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight. As a minimum, report on indirect greenhouse gas emissions related to buying gas, electricity or steam. You may also report on business travel related greenhouse gas emissions. EN18 Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved. What are you doing to reduce and how muchhave you reduced? LA1 Total workforce, including volunteers, by type, contract, and region.
- Living Our Values, Energy and Resources (p53, 54) - Living Our Values, Energy and Resources (p53, 54) - Living Our Values, Our People, Demographics (p50) - Living Our Values, Our People, Quality of Life (p51) - Living Our Values, Our People, Quality of Life (p51) - Living Our Values, Our People, Demographics (p50) - Listening to our Stakeholders, Involving Local Communities (p10), Working with Partners (p10) - Essential Services, School Building in Cambodia (p23), Campaigning for Health and Education, Evaluating our Campaign (p24) - Rights in Crisis, Pakistan Floods, Listening to Local Voices (p29), Building a Sustainable Future (p29) Living Our Values, Our People, Whistle Blowing (p52) - Fundraising and Income, Ethical Fundraising (p41) - Annex 1 (p60) Oxfam does not sell products which are banned in certain markets and, as far as we are aware, our products have not been the subject of stakeholder questions or public debate.
LA10 Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category. If you cant report on average hours of training, report on training programs in place. LA12 Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews. LA13 Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership, and other indicators of diversity. SO1 Nature, scope, and effectiveness of any programs and practices that assess and manage the impacts of operations on communities, including entering, operating, and exiting. This indicator was designed to talk about the positive/negative side effects of what you do, not about your main purpose. Percentage of employees trained in organizations anti-corruption policies and procedures.
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